Torso

Police continue to look for a suspect in the killing of a woman whose headless torso was found Saturday alongside the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks under the Int. Hwy. 94 overpass in Portage, Ind., police said Sunday. The nude torso, which was stuffed in a garbage bag, was the remains of an unidentified black female between 20 and 30 years of age, Porter County Coroner John Evans said. A pathology lab in South Bend determined that the victim died of sharp and blunt trauma about 24 hours before...

A Lawndale man was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bail Sunday after prosecutors say he attacked a man with a hatchet over a $10 debt last week. Cornell Fenner, 54, of the 1200 block of South Avers Avenue, had owed the victim $10 for about a month when the man approached him about the money Tuesday in the 3800 block of West Roosevelt Road, according to Cook County court records and Assistant State's Attorney Alexandra Molesky. Fenner and an unknown co-offender did not respond to...

A burned torso found early Tuesday in an abandoned building on Chicago's South Side is believed to be that of a Maryland man who police say was killed more than a week ago in a Des Plaines town home. Blood tests will be performed to see if the body is that of Michael Carter, 29, police said. Carter of Mt. Rainier, Md., disappeared Feb. 17 while visiting a former girlfriend in the Woodland Townhomes complex. Des Plaines police said they determined that he had been killed after...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Human body parts found at two separate waste treatment plants 20 miles apart in Los Angeles likely belong to the same dismembered murder victim, authorities said on Tuesday. The upper torso of an unidentified woman, described only as possibly Hispanic, was discovered on Monday in a waste treatment plant east of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. That torso appears to be related to a foot, calf and...

The last time Ora Goods saw her 31-year-old daughter, Dorothy Goods Tapper, was the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 29. Goods said Tapper and her 10-month-old son, Alan, waved goodbye and went inside the Near West Side clinic where Tapper's husband, Dr. Edward Tapper, was on the staff. Tapper, a teacher on a one-year maternity leave, had just left the Chicago Board of Education headquarters, where she had signed up to resume teaching 6th grade at Corkery Elementary...

A 21-year-old man was fatally shot outside his home about a block from the campus of Evanston Township High School, police said. Cardereon Preister was leaning against a car when he was shot outside his home in the 1700 block of Leland Avenue around 11 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. “Somebody fired a single shot which struck him in the upper torso, shoulder area," said Evanston Police Commander Jay Parrott. Responding officers found Preister lying face...

After confirming that a female torso found in the Little Calumet River was the body of missing 13-year-old Hammond, Ind., girl, Chicago homicide detectives searched a South Side house and were interviewing several people in the investigation. A house in the 300 block of East 138th Street was a "possible crime scene," police spokesman John Mirabelli said, but it was unlikely the investigation would be concluded Thursday. Police said forensic tests had confirmed the torso was...

Two men were stabbed this morning in separate incidents on the Near North Side, police said. One was stabbed in his torso at 3:40 a.m. near the 700 block of North Franklin Street while another was stabbed in his abdomen in the 1200 block of North Clark Street at 4 a.m., according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Amina Greer, who was citing preliminary information. A man was walking on the 700 block of North Franklin when he was involved in a physical altercation with an...

A fugitive suspected of killing and dismembering his wife fled Saturday to a state park almost 300 miles from their suburban Detroit home, authorities said. Police were closing in late Saturday on a cabin at Wilderness State Park, about 11 miles west of Mackinaw City, where Stephen Grant was thought to be hiding, according to Michigan State Police. The truck Grant was believed to have been driving was found hours earlier in nearby Emmet County. Grant, 37, went...

(Recasts with sourcing from police, adds details, comment from police officials) By Tim Bross ST. LOUIS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A student armed with a pistol opened fire at a college in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, shooting a school employee and then turning the gun on himself, police said. Both men are expected to survive the incident, which occurred at about 2 p.m. local time at the Stevens Institute of Business & Arts, according to St....

Results of DNA tests were being awaited Wednesday to positively identify a burned torso found this week as that of a Maryland man believed killed two weeks ago in Des Plaines. Des Plaines police have submitted bone, blood and tissue to Illinois State Police in hopes of matching DNA to that of the parents of Michael Carter, 29. Carter vanished Feb. 17 from a former girlfriend's town home in Des Plaines. Based on blood and bone fragments found by the woman's son in her basement,...

Often, we cheat when bending from side to side, and we don't get the full benefit from this dynamic stretch. Holding a block between your hands will help to target your side torso muscle more effectively in this side bend. 1. Stand upright on a flat, level surface with your feet together. Grasp a yoga block between your hands. Be sure that the block is between the palms of your hands and not just your fingers. Straighten your arms so the block is above your head and your upper arms...

It was only a torso, without head, arms, or legs, but medical authorities in Indiana identified the victim as a 31-year-old Chicago schoolteacher who had been missing since last week. The victim, Dorothy Goods Tapper, an Oak Park resident and teacher at Corkery Elementary School, 2510 S. Kildare Ave., was identified Thursday from her spinal column. John Evans, coroner in Porter County, Indiana, where the torso was found last Saturday,said that X-rays of the torso's spinal column...

Bensenville police investigators hope that two tattoos found on the torso of a dismembered woman will help lead to her identification. DuPage Coroner Richard Ballinger said Tuesday that the remains of the body found Monday along York Road in Bensenville carried two tattoos: one on her back near the left shoulder says "Eric" and one on her chest near her sternum in the shape of a heart with the letter "E" inside the heart. Ballinger called the tattoos "crude, maybe not...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sweden have asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to award a women's Olympic triathlon gold medal to Lisa Norden as well as Switzerland's official winner Nicola Spirig. The CAS said in a statement that a hearing would take place at its temporary offices in London on Friday with a final decision rendered early on Saturday. The two athletes, national Olympic Committees, federations, International Olympic Committee and Games organizers LOCOG were...

The torso of a woman discovered last week in a Bensenville roadside ditch was identified Tuesday as that of Romona Hernandez, 20, of Chicago. Several tattoos on the torso, which was found by a road crew cutting weeds along York Road on June 6, led to a preliminary identification. Once Bensenville police and the DuPage coroner's office had that identification, they were able to get X-rays from a physician who had treated Hernandez. DuPage County Coroner Richard Ballinger...